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Trump for Dummies

A ten-step guide

Cartoon of Donald Trump as a graduate with the Trump class book.
Illustration: David Simonds
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Hello and welcome to the Donald J. Trump School of Politics and Public Policy! As you may know, we are the only graduate school accredited to teach the Trump Method (TM™). Though we offer advanced courses in applying the Method to trade and NATO, we do that only to justify your huge federal student loans and to keep things interesting for us professors. When it comes to domestic politics, there is only one Trump Method, ten steps to winning and governing, and you will learn them all here in Trump 101: Illegal Immigration. (We like to call it “How Dense Are Democrats, Really?” or “Trump for Demmies”.) It takes five minutes. Here we go:

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